Vol. 7, Issue 2 of AZE focuses on the theme of gender expectations.
Choosing A Gender
I was first aware of gender when my voice changed.
Queer as in Fuck You
First, you want to know who fucks me now.
late bloomer
‘But do you know?’ ‘Are you certain?’ ‘You’ll figure it out eventually’.
the world is my grave
my body will never be used
for what the male gods have the female insides predestined for
Time, A Notebook Of Water
From the moment we left those feelings
unpronounced
The Choices We Don’t Make
Your ace-ness has fed you a
comforting lie
journal (take #53)
dear diary, i’ll make this brief in the sense that i’ll try to summarize everything i cannot say concisely
Three Poems
When he clasps your hand
It is both a greeting
And a recognition of the
Work needing to be done
Dress Code
All the girls wore plaid jumpers until I turned ten years old.
In the absence of? Everything.
He holds me so tight I might compress back into stardust.
Intimacy – The Duality of being Ace.
I write a lot about intimacy. I write about my understanding of it.
asexual has a manic episode
lens of / kaleidoscopic shards / render me
The Formula
boy + girl = couple
Society has hammered the formula into me since birth.
On the Discomfort of Inhabiting Gender and Sexuality
My confrontation with gender detachment was the first time that I was able to put into words the relationship I have to my gender.
From Toxically Male to Asexual: Unlearning Patriarchal Maleness
Not so long ago, a friend of mine told me that people that knew me from school were surprised to hear that I was interested in feminist topics.
Does there have to be a reason?
I walked away because I had a bus to catch.
(Un)carved
This photography came to my mind during one of my ceramics classes.
The Structure of a Breakdown: My Experiences as an Aroace Trans Person as Told Through Poetry
Cut off, cut out of me
These organs that curse me!
Self Expression
Little girl. Listen.